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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What symbol keeps appearing for the children as they are entertained by the strange man in "Grandmother's Tale"?
(a) Druin.
(b) Gimel.
(c) Nun.
(d) Farkel.

2. What is the coat made of that belonged to the strange man in Grandmother's tale?
(a) Fox fur.
(b) Wolf fur.
(c) Leather.
(d) Bear hide.

3. What does Atzel notice about the food in paradise?
(a) It makes him sleepy.
(b) It tastes different from food on earth.
(c) It is always the same.
(d) It is far too much to eat.

4. What does Gronam want to do with the snow in Chelm?
(a) Hide it from the villagers.
(b) Divide it up among the citizens.
(c) Save it for the people.
(d) Use it to pay debts.

5. What vanishes with the strange man?
(a) The house.
(b) The children.
(c) The squirrels.
(d) The dreidel and coins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the strange man in "Grandmother's Tale" do first when he entered the house?

2. What does Atzel do when he returns from the false paradise?

3. Who were the leaders in Chelm?

4. How does the strange man in "Grandmother's Tale" entertain the children in the house?

5. What is the first thing the doctor tells the older man to do to cure Atzel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What came into the house as the strange man called out after his real identity was revealed?

2. How does "Grandmother's Tale" begin?

3. What did the strange man in "Grandmother's Tale" do when he came into the house?

4. What does Gronam notice about the Hanukkah snow?

5. How do the Elders decide to tell the people not to trample the snow?

6. What did the strange man who appeared in "Grandmother's Tale" look like?

7. What is the rhyme at the end of "Grandmother's Tale"?

8. What does Atzel do on his first days in paradise, and how does he feel about this?

9. Why does Atzel come to wish he were dead?

10. Why did someone think the moon fell in a barrel?

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